Dropbox 404 Permalinks issue (using xampp)

  • Hi, I develop my wordpress sites locally on my machine using XAMPP server. It usually works out great and then I upload them to my server. But I recently got Dropbox and I want to develop in my dropbox folder so I can access the files from multiple computers.

    But I am getting a 404 error on all my pages but my frontpage. The front page comes up fine but when I click on any of my internal links, I get a 404 error.

    If I moved the whole site out of the dropbox folder, the site works fine.

    If it matters, the dropbox location is not the default location because I moved dropbox under /xampp/htdocs so it would be recognized by the local server.

    Any thoughts appreciated, this is a real pain.

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  • might be that your permalink structure has gotten fubar’d somehow. go into the permalink settings and click save again, and it should rewrite the rules out.

    Thread Starter pancakes4breakfast

    (@pancakes4breakfast)

    Hi tgiokdi, thanks for the response. I just tried again what you recommend and it didn’t help.

    I should have stated in the original post that my wordpress site works fine in the dropbox folder as long as leave the permalinks on default. But as soon as I try to put it on any of the “pretty permalinks” options, all my subpages come up 404. ??

    so that’s the problem that you’ll need to figure out, perhaps the .htaccess file isn’t being updated in the dropbox folder correctly?

    Thread Starter pancakes4breakfast

    (@pancakes4breakfast)

    Yes it could be a .htaccess issue. Anyone have any ideas why an .htaccess file wouldn’t be updated properly just because it’s in a dropbox folder? Doesn’t make sense to me.

    dropbox may not like files that do not have an actual file name. windows use to have trouble with them as well.

    the only solution that I know of is to manually update all the htaccess files on your various machines. generally that file isn’t changed very often

    Thread Starter pancakes4breakfast

    (@pancakes4breakfast)

    I wouldn’t mind changing my .htacess file by hand. Do you know what changes I might need to make to it, tgiokdi? Thanks.

    if you go into the permalinks settings page, it’ll give you the code that you need in it

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